living off coffee and the promise of more

I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT I LOVE IT

You missed the best part. They weren’t even their sheep. This good pupper gathered up a bunch of random sheep it found somewhere on the countryside and brought them home for its human.

*whispers* the countryside is full of free sheep

One last hot take and then I’ll shut up: the reason adhd is framed first and foremost as a learning disability when it is in fact more apt to call it an emotional processing disorder is bc our society is only concerned w the ways neurological disorders impede a person’s ability to “function” aka get a job and contribute positively to capitalist society. How adhd affects interpersonal behaviors and emotional health is only relevant insofar as it relates to a person’s level of societal functioning PERIOD. There is no interest in improving our actual livelihoods

This is why girls are often not diagnosed w adhd until they are much older, bc they are forced to develop certain social awareness and self-surveillance capacities at an extremely young age and thus don’t perform “poorly” in the areas usually looked at to signify the disorder. But that doesn’t mean girls don’t take that distress out thru other avenues, just that the many alternative iterations of the disorder are ignored by professionals bc they don’t matter as far as society is concerned, as long as a girl is performing “well enough”

Yeah, this is what I’m always saying–the best-known symptoms are the ones that affect your schoolwork. I’d argue not even actually work-work–recently I was looking up some sources to support a point in an internet argument I was having about ADHD (I know, I know) and it was depressing the way that 90% of them assumed that you were the parent of a child with ADHD rather than someone who actually has it, and how laser-focused they were on how symptoms affect school performance. I mean, obviously there’s significant overlap in what affects school performance and what affects work performance, I just don’t think the thought process is even “this will make you bad at being a capitalist automaton” (except inasmuch as the school system is training for that) because you’re expected to have outgrown it by the time that’s relevant. BUT ANYWAY, I always thought I had my ADHD pretty well under control because it was caught early and so I was taught how to manage the symptoms that affected school, but as an adult I keep finding that it’s behind all these other problems that I have that I didn’t realize were related and was never taught to deal with, because as long as I was turning my homework in on time they didn’t matter.